Archive for Deepak Chopra

This is an excellent new interview with Deepak Chopra, “one of the most lucid and inspirational philosophers of our time” and “a preeminent leader of the body-mind-spirit movement,” posted by Doordarshan National on February 20, 2013.

Andrew Harvey is an author, scholar and visionary spiritual teacher, who believes humanity’s survival depends on what he calls Sacred Activism.

Harvey describes Sacred Activism as “the product of the union of a profound spiritual and mystical knowledge, understanding, and compassion, peace and energy, with focused, wise, radical action in the world.” He also says, “Compassion in Action is the marriage of practical action and spiritual wisdom to create a holy force capable of transforming our world crisis and preserving our planet.”

Deepak Chopra’s latest book is a novel about the life of Muhammad. This is the third book in his “Story of Enlightenment” series (the first two were about Buddha and Jesus). Here are two new interviews (from Q TV and New Realities) with Deepak about Muhammad.

Deepak Chopra was interviewed by Hub Culture before speaking at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit at UC Davis earlier this week.

When asked, “What brings you to the conference?” Deepak said: “I’ve been very passionate about the whole realm of well-being — physical, environmental, emotional, spiritual, community, social, financial — and over the years have really understood that we can’t ensure our well-being unless we look at the whole planet as a living organism.

“We have conventions of language and grammar that alienate us from our extended body. We call it ‘the environment’ as if it’s separate from us, but those trees are your lungs. If they didn’t breathe, you wouldn’t breathe. And if you didn’t breathe, they wouldn’t breathe. You know, we are actually one organism. The rivers and waters are your circulation. The Earth recycles as your body.

“Even the sun and the stars and the galaxies are very responsible for this physical body. Even the iron that courses through your blood, that’s hemoglobin — goes to your brain, makes us have this conversation — it was forged in the supernova billions of years ago, and depends on photosynthesis to enter our body. So, we’ve really messed it up. And it’s our science that has messed it up. Because, you know, our science is alienating. Our science is not holistic. It says, ‘me’ and ‘the world,’ when in fact, we are the world.”

Deepak also quotes Einstein: “No problem will ever be solved at the level of consciousness in which we created the problem.”

He says women have to be the leaders: “Even the United Nations knows that the fastest way to change the world is the economic empowerment of women, and otherwise, also the empowerment of women.”

And he closes by saying that unless we have that “spiritual shift,” nothing’s going to happen.